Statuti

STATUTI, Rom. civ. law. From Constantine to Justinian, advocates, were
arranged in two classes: viz. those called Statuti, and the supernumeraries.
(q.v.) The Statute were those advocates whose names were inscribed in the
registers of matriculation, and formed a part of the college of advocates.
The number of advocates of this class was limited. See Calvini Lex ad vocem.

Any direct influence upon Starkie's use of "act or omission" was more likely to have come from his master, Joseph Chitty, who had used "act or omission" in his Treatise on Pleading, in the context of actions contra formam statuti, some five years earlier: 1 A Practical Treatise on Pleading and on the Parties to an Action (1809) p 358.

According to Cujas, the privileges of the Roman statuti included the right of the son of one of the enrolled ordinary advocates to gain entry to their ranks ahead of supernumerary advocates, even those with greater experience; enrolled advocates also had a degree of immunity from charges and public duties through being attached to the court.

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